Pivotal Power Inc.

Pivotal Power Inc., doing business as DRS Pivotal Power, is a foreign-owned manufacturer of power-related products and electronic components headquartered in Bedford, Nova Scotia, and operating as a subsidiary of Leonardo SPA, an Italian aerospace and defense multinational. The company competes as a prime contractor on unrestricted federal procurements, with 96% of its recent awards as prime and 4% as subcontractor work; it does not pursue set-aside categories and does not hold SBA certifications.

Pivotal Power's federal footprint centers on power equipment and electrical component manufacturing for defense logistics. The company manufactures and supplies uninterruptible power supplies, battery assemblies, circuit card assemblies, headsets (electrical and acoustical), cable assemblies, electronic modules, transformers, power supplies, and specialized component repairs. Representative prime work includes a $2.44 million Naval Sea Systems Command purchase order for 6 kVA uninterruptible power supplies (September 2024), a $690 thousand Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime delivery order for 485 handset units (April 2025), a $680 thousand order for handset devices (June 2024), a $664 thousand DLA Land and Maritime order for 160 jack box units (December 2024), and a $432 thousand order for 711 acoustical headsets (December 2024). Work spans manufacturing and assembly at facilities in Hammonds Plains and Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime dominates the portfolio at 611 awards and $18.8 million in combined potential value—64% of all awards and 44% of all potential value. The Department of the Navy's Naval Supply Systems Command accounts for 149 awards and $10.6 million (16% of awards, 25% of potential value), and Naval Sea Systems Command adds 68 awards and $8.2 million (7% of awards, 19% of potential value). These three customers represent 94% of recent awards by count and 97% of combined potential value. The concentration reflects Pivotal Power's role as a high-volume supplier of individual components and assemblies to defense logistics channels, not a provider of major systems.

Pivotal Power holds two active indefinite delivery contracts with the Defense Logistics Agency Land and Maritime: a $250 thousand single-award vehicle originally established July 29, 2021 (ultimate completion date July 29, 2022, but actively in use for task orders), and a $350 thousand single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract awarded January 20, 2026 (ultimate completion date January 20, 2027) for headset-microphone procurement. The company places the vast majority of work as firm fixed-price purchase orders against these vehicles and through spot procurements rather than through larger GWACs or enterprise-wide IDIQs. The source lists only five parent vehicles by name: Basic Ordering Agreement SPE4A123G0026, Federal Supply Schedule GS07F9250S, Indefinite Delivery Contract HSCG4008D40027, Basic Ordering Agreement N0010421GA100, and an Engineering and Support Services contract.

Activity has accelerated significantly. The company recorded 23 awards in 2022, growing to 115 in 2024 and 124 in 2025, with 35 recorded in 2026 year-to-date. Forty-nine awards with combined potential value of $6.8 million are scheduled for completion in the next twenty-four months, representing a material recompete exposure window. The company's primary NAICS codes reflect its product portfolio: Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing (180 awards), Battery Manufacturing (132 awards), All Other Miscellaneous Electrical Equipment and Component Manufacturing (108 awards), and Capacitor, Resistor, Coil, Transformer, and Other Inductor Manufacturing (96 awards). PSC coding is dominated by Converters, Electrical, Nonrotating (217 awards), Electronic Modules (173 awards), and Batteries, Rechargeable (154 awards).

Pivotal Power subcontracts primarily to Huntington Ingalls Incorporated on naval ship construction and alteration work, particularly for power unit components across DDG 51-class destroyers, LPD-class amphibious transport docks, and LHA-class amphibious assault ships. Recent subcontract work includes power units for LHA 8 detail design and construction (multiple rebuys, August–October 2025), DDG 51-class ship construction power supplies on units DDG 129, DDG 131, DDG 133, DDG 135, and DDG 137 (July–October 2025), and LPD 30 long-lead-time material rebuys (August–September 2025). The company also subcontracts to Saab, Inc. for a rectifier power unit module on a naval program (March 2025) and to General Dynamics Information Technology, Inc. for ship controls and automation installation on USS Kearsarge (June 2025). Subcontract work represents a small but growing share of the portfolio, anchored to major naval shipbuilders.

Pivotal Power's competitive position rests on commodity-component supply to the defense logistics pipeline. The vendor does not hold parent contract vehicles spanning multiple agencies and does not compete in large system integration or major defense industrial base consolidation. Its value proposition centers on reliable, on-time delivery of standardized electrical and power components to DLA and Navy supply chains, leveraging Leonardo SPA's manufacturing footprint and quality systems. Recompete risk is distributed across hundreds of small purchase orders rather than concentrated in a handful of large indefinite-delivery vehicles, making the portfolio both resilient to single-contract loss and exposed to attrition at the volume level if DLA or Navy supply strategies shift toward alternative vendors or consolidation of component supply.